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In effect, you are your own pope

You Catholics just don't get it...There is no pope...There is no human vicar of Christ...

Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

The Vicar of Christ that Jesus sent is the Holy Spirit...

The Apostle Peter faded into obscurity as the church began to blossom under the teaching of the Apostle Paul...

Had there ever been an actual pope, it would have been Paul...But Paul rightly considered himself a servant of the churches, not the leader...The only leader is Jesus Christ...

Yours is a false Christianity...An anti-Christianity, made by fallible men...

Actually, at the Council of Jerusalem, James was the chief spokesman; it was his suggestion that the church agreed to. Peter played a very insignificant role there and there was no record of them deferring to his judgment or decision making on the issue. On the contrary, the church decided together as a body what to do.

Acts 15:13 When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. 14Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself. 15The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:

16" 'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, 17that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things' 18that have been known for ages.

19"It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath."

22Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.